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OFAC has designated Istanbul-based Zedpay Financial and its Iranian chairman, accusing the firm of processing payments to circumvent US restrictions on Iran.…
Malaysian police dismantled a Bitcoin mining syndicate in Johor that earned up to RM100,000 monthly by stealing electricity from national utility TNB across four premises.…
Blockaid detected an ongoing exploit draining $450K from Garden Finance across four chains, marking another breach in a troubling pattern for cross-chain DeFi.…
BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, and peers representing $30 trillion in combined firepower have thrown their weight behind the Clarity Act, signaling a watershed moment for institutional crypto regulation.…
New Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh launches five task forces to overhaul U.S. monetary policy, leaving cryptocurrency entirely off the agenda.…
South Korea's largest bank will use JPMorgan's Kinexys blockchain network to process dollar payments for import and export clients starting August 2026.…
The CFTC has issued its second warning of 2026 to prediction markets, demanding they stop filing boilerplate self-certifications for events contracts.…
WEMIX is investigating a suspected breach of its WEMIX$ stablecoin smart contract, threatening to derail the project's ongoing recovery and transition efforts.…
Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, is building cryptocurrency trading infrastructure ahead of a Dec. 1 deadline as Moscow formalizes crypto rules for market participants.…
The OCC denied Wise's US bank charter this week citing AML/CFT risks, even as it approved similar charters for crypto firms. Wise plans to resubmit under the GENIUS Act.…
South Korea's KB Kookmin Bank has launched a cross-border payment service on JPMorgan's Kinexys blockchain, marking a significant step in enterprise blockchain adoption.…
South Korea's largest bank, KB Kookmin, will launch a USD cross-border payment service on JPMorgan's Kinexys blockchain platform across 10 countries.…